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Name: Yitzhak Rabin, Professor Email: rabin@mail.biu.ac.il Room: 416, building 202 Phone: 03-5318857 Courses 86-216: Statistical mechanics 2 86-844: Physical biology of the cell Students Wagman, Michal Medalion, Shlomi laimam, shaul Research interests Theoretical studies of polymers and complex fluids, including hydrodynamics of polymer solutions, interfacial phenomena, charged and associating polymers, gels, liquid crystals, fluctuating membranes and granular media; non-equilibrium statistical mechanics: interdiffusion, flow effects on phase transitions, kinetics of phase transitions. Activities 1. Physics of biological systems. 2. Theoretical studies in soft condensed matter physics, including polymers, gels, polyelectrolytes, liquid crystals, granular materials, fluctuating membranes, etc. 3. Phase transitions in complex systems: effects of intramolecular degrees of freedom and of confinement. 4. Statistical physics of interacting systems with frozen disorder. 5. Topological defects in solids and the physics of melting. CV EDUCATION B.Sc. in Physics: Tel-Aviv University, 1974 M.Sc. in Physics: Tel-Aviv University, 1976 Ph.D. in Chemistry: Tel-Aviv University, 1980 EMPLOYMENT 1991-present Professor Department of Physics Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel 1986-1991 Associate Professor Department of Chemical Physics The Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel 1983-1985 Senior Staff Scientist Center for Studies of Nonlinear Dynamics, La Jolla Institute, La Jolla, CA 1981-1983 Lecturer Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California Los Angeles, CA 1980-1981 Research Scientist Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany VISITING PROFESSOR 1986-1988 La Jolla Institute, La Jolla, CA 1989 College de France, Paris, France 1989 Institute for Theoretical Physics,Santa Barbara, CA 1990 James Franck Institute, Chicago, IL 1990-1991 Materials Department, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 1991 Exxon Research and Engineering, Annandale, NJ 1991 Department of Chemistry, USC, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics Kyoto, Japan 1995--1996 Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 1997 Curie Institute, Paris, France 1997-1998 Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 2002 Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Bat-Sheva de Rothschild Foundation Fellow 1986-1987. The Annual (E.D. Bergman) Award of the Israeli Chemical Society, 1988. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Israeli Physical Society American Physical Society Materials Research Society